Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Power of One

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, makes new friends, collects cacti and plays... Read more

The Story of Danny Dunn

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 23 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1930s, two opportunities existed for boys of Balmain, a working-class Sydney suburb: to be selected into Fort Street Boys School or to excel as a sportsman. At just sixteen years Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brains, looks, sporting aptitude - and luck with the ladies. His parents run The Hero of Mafeking ('Maffos'), the... Read more

Code Name Verity

By: Elizabeth Wein

Narrated by: Morven Christie & Lucy Gaskell

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet... Read more

Nocturne

By: Diane Armstrong

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams. As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers. In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistance, then flies bombers for the RAF. Forced... Read more

The Other Side of Dawn

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With a roar like a train in a tunnel, the war enters its final days. Ellie has to be on that train. There's no more sitting around, no more waiting. There's only fast decisions, fast action, fast thinking. And she'd better get it right. With all their being, Ellie and her friends want to stay alive. But there's a war out there. And it has to be... Read more

The Toymaker

By: Liam Pieper

Narrated by: Damian de Montemas

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A person is defined by the secrets they keep ... Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably hide from them. And he is not the... Read more

Birdcage Walk

By: Helen Dunmore

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from... Read more

Whitethorn

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 24 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping novel of Africa, in all its power, beauty and savagery, Bryce Courtenay captures the life of a child and the life of a nation. Whitethorn is a book about tragedy and joy, about love and hatred, and about a boy called Tom who will not rest until justice is done. From the author of Brother Fish and The Power of One comes another... Read more

Death Before Wicket

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The sassy Phryne Fisher sets the seamy side of Sydney alight in her tenth adventure. Phryne Fisher has plans for her Sydney sojourn, but they begin to go awry when Phryne's maid discovers her thoroughly respectable sister Joan has left her family for the murky nightlife on the Cross, and then postponed again because Phryne is definitely not the... Read more

Swords and Crowns and Rings

By: Ruth Park

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their life-long odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage. In Swords and... Read more

Silver Wattle

By: Belinda Alexandra

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adéla and Klára must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. Later, Adéla becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. But even while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love... Read more

Den sidste flugt

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Elsebeth Holtze Madsen

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Den sidste flugt" er en gribende, historisk roman om Honor Bright, som i mange år af sit liv har levet en beskyttet tilværelse. Vi befinder os i 1850'erne, da Honor Bright beslutter sig for at flygte fra sine trygge rammer. Hendes søster skal giftes i USA, og dette bliver således også den destination, hvortil hun tager hen. Da Honors søster... Read more

Faldne engle

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Dianna Vangsaa

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

FALDNE ENGLE er en fascinerende fortælling om barnevenskaber, seksuel vækkelse og menneskelig skrøbelighed. Om en nation i forandring og om kampen for kvindernes stemmeret. Januar 1901, dagen efter dronning Victorias død: To familier mødes ved deres tilstødende gravsteder på en fashionabel London-kirkegård. Waterhouse-familien hylder den... Read more

Brændende ild

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Louise Herbert

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Flammer og begravelser, cirkusforestillinger og forførelse, naboer og nøgenhed: Tracy Chevaliers nye roman, Brændende ild, gnistrer af dramatik. London 1792. Familien Kellaway flytter fra det velkendte, landlige Dorset til tumulten i en tætpakket ubarmhjertig storby. Med en by præget af nervøsitet over den stadig mere blodige franske... Read more

Forunderlige skabninger

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Stine Prætorius

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hele mit liv er jeg blevet ramt af lynet. En enkelt gang rent bogstaveligt." En opdagelsesrejse, et møde mellem to bemærkelsesværdige kvinder, en forunderlig tid og et særpræget sted, er baggrunden for Tracy Chevaliers fængslende nye roman. I starten af det 19. århundrede vrimler den vindomsuste engelske kyst med fossiler for folk med... Read more

Imperialisterne

By: Vivian Stuart

Narrated by: Jesper Bøllehuus

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Den treogtyvende bog i den spændende og dramatiske beretning om Australiens kolonisering – et land skabt af blod, passion og drømme.  Et nyt århundrede er begyndt, imens australierne former deres land. De unge australiers liv er karakteriseret af nyt håb. Nogle tager ud i den australske ødemærk i søgen efter guld og ære. Andre finder deres... Read more

Ildhav

By: Chufo Lloréns

Narrated by: Thomas Leth Rasmussen

Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Vi er i det 11. århundredes Barcelona blandt forrædere ved hoffet, ærlige riddere, borgerlige skønjomfruer, arabiske prostituerede og hæderlige munke. Gennem nogle få personer får vi fortalt et lille stykke ægte historie fra byens storhedstid. Martí Barbany er stadig ung, da han mister sin elskede hustru i barselssengen. Fra tidligere har han... Read more

Bedragets rødder

By: James Forrester

Narrated by: Thomas Guldstad

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Maj 1564: Den respekterede katolske budbringer William Harley, kendt som kongens overherold, er vogter af et meget farligt dokument. Da dette bliver stjålet, mistænker Harley straks en gruppe katolske sympatisører, de selvudnævnte Riddere om det Runde Bord. Snart står Harley over for et sand mareridt bestående af mistanke, bedrag og... Read more

Det sidste sakramente

By: James Forrester

Narrated by: Thomas Guldstad

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1566: Herolden William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, er i besiddelse af et dokument, der kan tilintetgøre dronning Elizabeth og kaste landet ud i en sønderrivende konflikt mellem katolikker og protestanter. Han forsøger at leve et stilfærdigt liv i London sammen med sin familie, men den aldrende lady Percy, grevinde af... Read more

Nationalisterne

By: Vivian Stuart

Narrated by: Jesper Bøllehuus

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Den enogtyvende bog i den spændende og dramatiske beretning om Australiens kolonisering – et land skabt af blod, passion og drømme.  Nationalismen spreder sig som en steppebrand over hele kontinentet – specielt i de unges hjerter. Børnene af De søfarende og Søfolkene vokser op i et nyt land, som kun lige er ved at blive til en nation. Nogle vil... Read more

Loyalisterne

By: Vivian Stuart

Narrated by: Jesper Bøllehuus

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Den toogtyvende bog i den spændende og dramatiske beretning om Australiens kolonisering – et land skabt af blod, passion og drømme.  Australien kæmper igen mod boerne i Sydafrika sammen med briterne.   Sloan Shannon er iblandt dem, som kæmper imod boerne. Han er blevet såret og taget til fange, men bliver reddet af en boersk sygeplejerske.... Read more

Gargoilen

By: Andrew Davidson

Narrated by: Esben Hansen

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ulykken rammer, ofte voldsomt, dem, der mindst venter det – præcis ligesom kærligheden. Efter at være rullet ned ad en skrænt i sin bil ligger en mand på hospitalet. Han har alvorlige forbrændinger over det meste af kroppen. Han udholder smerte, vansiring og pinefulde behandlinger, der skal fjerne hans døde og rådnende hud, kun i håbet om at... Read more

La brisa de oriente

By: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica

Narrated by: Enrique Pacheco & Benja Figueres

Length: 27 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Un soberbio fresco de la Europa medieval. Umberto de Quéribus, un joven monje blanco, emprende un viaje en 1204 acompañando a su abad con destino a Constantinopla. A partir de este momento, su vida cambia por completo, arrastrado a peligros y situaciones extremas en las que perderá toda candidez infantil. Durante el viaje de regreso a su... Read more

Die Nacht am Feuer 2 – Der Krieg im Winter: Historischer Roman über Ritter und Abenteuer in der Schweiz im Mittelalter (Schweizer Mittelalter Saga)

By: Antoine de la Fère

Narrated by: Freerk Reeder

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Band 2 schließt den packenden Zyklus "Die Burgunderkriege" über den Unabhängigkeitskampf der Schweizer Gebiete im Spätmittelalter ab. Lesen Sie jetzt das grandiose Finale! Der Krieg gegen Karl den Kühnen schreitet unaufhaltsam seinem Höhepunkt entgegen. Auf dem blutgetränkten Schlachtfeld vor Murten steht Matthias dem Herzog gegenüber, als ihn... Read more